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“…what for me has far deeper implications for psychology, what is far more disturbing from a philosophical standpoint, is that on occasion a man can be created by another man, by another himself, by virtue of a fortuitous encounter, and at any moment…What I want to show is the contact a man can have with […]

                They came upon a clearing, a meadow of open grass on hilltop of ridge above the living shadow of the woods on mountain’s sides.  Doves held in the bare winter branches of woods’ edge, gathered to feed on the heads of foxtail winterkilled in the meadow and laying slumped in stalks by the weight […]

          “No resolutions or expectations?” he questioned, not in judgment but, from want to continue conversation.           “No,” she smiled with an open lightness of spirit.           “What about hopes?” he asked.           Her smile held.  “There are always hopes,” she spoke, “but, those, I leave to the will of the Universe—your God—whatever we choose […]

                She was a blessing in her own right: a kind soul of gentle spirit that brought a levity to worlds she touched.  It was a levity not of pretense but of honest presence.  He felt it in himself whenever she was near.                  Her blue eyes spoke in spirit, and when holding on his […]

                They departed from darkened world under winter rain that fell light and steady from low clouds that suppressed all light from the heavens.  In ascent, only the light of wingtips, and those of artificial world beneath, shone as the plane climbed fast through blackness and small turbulence of storm before rising above and into […]

“It is indeed your most fundamental and essential right—your right to accidents, to crime, to error, to Evil, to the worst as well as to the best—which far more than your right to happiness, makes you a human worthy of the name.”—Jean Baudrillard                 “Do you ever struggle?” he asked in voice devoid of guard […]

            If God is in the silence, it was through Him in which they spoke; reading light and shade in eyes—windows to the soul—that spoke in means of esoteric understanding to souls in peace.  They found no need for words to fill and break the silence of a settled still.  The silence was not a […]

“After I wrote this…there came to me a miraculous vision in which I saw things that made me resolve to say no more…until I would be capable of writing…in a nobler way.  To achieve this I am striving…and this she truly knows.  Accordingly, if it be the pleasure of Him through whom all things live […]

                The old man listened to the young man’s plight: convictions, doubts, wants, and dreams—indecisions that made him freeze, and hopes that moved him on.  When the young man shared all he wished to speak, he waited for the old man’s reply.                 The old man reflected, thinking across years, on wisdom attained—lessons learned in […]

                It was a winter that seemed to never end.  Along the coast, the cold cast morning veils across the sea, ice crystals forming in fragile lines along the sand to crack and break in mornings of rising tide, touching and shattering ice lines left by receding sea in night.                  Inland, the same fogs […]